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Kirana King - India Ki Nayi Dukan
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Check this video to perceive how Kirana King has changed an old and disorderly Kirana Store in Jaipur into a cutting edge, value store. The deals after the fabulous makeover are unimaginable. Additionally, the storekeeper is progressively centered around business development after the problem free stock administration, production network framework and a 24x7 help of Kirana King.
Kirana King is a pioneer grocery marketplace that launched its tremendous project with high hopes 'Parivartan' on August 15, 2018. With an objective to change the sloppy Kirana division of India into a composed and productive one, the organization presented a wonderful arrangement of change for all the neighborhood Kirana storekeepers who needed to be a piece of the change for better future.
If you are a basic supply retailer attempting to secure a position in this aggressive market, hold hands with Kirana King and change your store into 'India Ki Nayi Dukan'.
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Gaiety Theatre, Douglas, IoM. The perceived glamour of show business is often confined to the front of house areas - an old lighting board, now in the theatre museum, now can be replaced by a laptop!
Originally opened as the Marina, designed by W J Rennison, in 1893 - it went bankrupt within 6 months, was sold and renamed the Pavilion. This was a large flat floored hall with a single small balcony, used for concerts, music halls, exhibitions, bazaars and, in one summer, roller skating. It was one of a number of such ventures, all competing with each other, and at the very end of the C19th they went into voluntary liquidation and emerged as the Palace and Derby Castle Company who went on to control much of the towns' entertainment. They immediately closed the Pavilion, and commissioned Frank Matcham to build a theatre in its place. Matcham retained much of the Pavilion and, in a remarkably short space of time, inserted the stage and auditorium into the existing building. The Gaiety Theatre and Opera House was opened on 16 July 1900 and was a huge success. However, particularly after WW2, tastes, and the Island's tourism changed, and the theatre fell into a steep decline, coming within a day of demolition in 1970. Thankfully it was saved, bought by the Isle of Man Government, and began a very slow, painstaking restoration, completed for the theatre's centenary.
City of Douglas, Isle of Man, Irish Sea, British Crown Dependency - Gaiety Theatre, Harris Promenade
July 2023
FORTUNE BRAINSTORM AI 2025
December 8-9th, 2025
San Francisco, CA, USA
First, artificial intelligence started to perceive. Then it began to learn. Now it understands—images, words, sounds, and more. The next generation of AI will reason, plan, and act—all while managing a complete overhaul of computing as we know it. Are we prepared to fully embrace this new capability—to deploy it, scale it, regulate it, and live, work, and play with it? This year we will discuss the rise of the agent and how it could unlock productivity gains. We’ll examine the business community’s continued move from planning for AI to acting on it—and how policy and regulatory changes are influencing that action.
Fortune Brainstorm AI returns to San Francisco to convene the smartest people we know—technologists, entrepreneurs, Fortune Global 500 executives, investors, policymakers, and the brilliant minds in between—to explore and interrogate the most pressing questions about AI at another pivotal moment.
We will investigate the latest advancements – how AI might orchestrate, organize, plan, or act – and share how organizations are deploying and scaling AI beyond mere experiments. And we will discuss the extraordinary demand on resources that AI commands and how industry can harness it to make AI’s gains sustainable and responsible.
As artificial intelligence gains a deeper understanding of our world, it is becoming clear that there is no business on the planet that AI won’t touch. Want to know what comes next? Join us at Fortune Brainstorm AI.
Photograph by Stuart Isett/Fortune
Inspired by a perceived lack of romance in the Minnesota tundra, Egg & Sperm :: Hide & Seek is an adult hide-and-seek game repeating throughout the night. It eggs on participants to share connections. Four members of the public per rotation wear glowing Sperm helmets and count while a large Egg rolls to a hiding location. When Sperm find the Egg and lays hands on it, the Egg glows more intensely. Once fully illuminated, the Egg is ushered back to the start point and the game begins again.
Playing with contact, this game electrifies connections between spectators, objects, and participants by offering a fun way to contemplate our motivations. Egg & Sperm uses technology to bring people closer together, physically as well as metaphorically. By exaggerating technology’s role at the center of the human quest for love, this work plays on sex and sexuality’s electrifying components. In emphasizing the body’s physicality, the artist hopes to inspire participating individuals into unplanned acts of contact.
Presented by Northern Lights.mn
Photograph Patrick Kelley, courtesy Northern Lights.mn
Collaboration with Kristen Murray on circuitry; with Emily Stover on the Uterine Arch.
There is a real or perceived distinction between the Fine and Commercial Arts. While Fine Arts is seen as being made primarily for aesthetic or creative expression, Commercial Arts are a service where the creative product is intended to be sold. Many Fine Art purist find it difficult to reconcile coupling money with their aesthetic pursuits; resulting in an accusation that commercial artists have “sold out.” As Richard Florida, Urban Studies Theorist, says ““The places that thrive today are those with the highest velocity of ideas, the highest density of talented and creative people.” Sold Out intends to bind the perceived gap between the arts and showcase the immense talent, creativity and entrepreneurship happening in the FM.
The MU Gallery would like to thank all the artists who shared their stories with us and Fargo Monthly for their thoughtful coverage of regional creatives.
If we perceive the world with love...
A new meaning of the same old stuff will pop up...
We will value same old stuff...
That was once worthless...
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A wonderful cosmetic dental solution. It really can change your life and how you are perceived by the world. t.co/p0fk9Dr7nP (via Twitter twitter.com/McOmieDentistry/status/1070038914453463041)
Meet the Dreamer, my new interactive art project, which I have just started to prototype. This illuminated sculpture aims to make us more aware of the characters who live inside our heads, and how our emotions influence the way we perceive the world around us.
The Dreamer’s head lights up with rear-projected videos of some of the characters who influence us, along with memories and feelings that fill in our minds, day and night. To show what the Dreamer is thinking, our first prototypes display images of people and nature, sparking different moods, each represented by a different colored light, such as: red for anger, orange for fear, yellow for happiness, green for surprise, blue for sadness, purple for love, for example.
You will be able to change the Dreamer’s worldview by pressing buttons that make him/her more happy or sad, angry or kind, fearful or curious (like social media emoticons). In response, the Dreamer’s head will light up with different colors and facial expressions, as these emotions are activated in his/her mind.
This kinetic sculpture can give us a glimpse at what goes on inside our heads, as images of our lives pass by, fleeting like clouds in the sky, colored by our moods. The Dreamer’s quiet face keeps transforming, responding to new images and emotions with images and sounds of its own.
As times goes by, we see the interplay of the forces that drive us: anger can turn into love, sadness into joy, fear into curiosity. And changing our emotions can transform how we view the world. We hope this experience can help us replace our destructive emotions with a more positive outlook.
The Dreamer is being developed at Tam Makers, our makerspace in Mill Valley, where we are building our first prototypes. This interactive art project will be presented in different ways:
• as part of the Time Machine we’re building at Pataphysical Studios
• as a stand-alone exhibit in art shows and galleries
• in large street performances during public events
• in short videos on the web
We’re still experimenting with different ways to create The Dreamer. The current plan is to vacuum form a mannequin head (for the prototype), then a clay sculpture of the preferred shape (for the final product), using translucent white plastic, flattened a bit at the mouth, eyes and forehead, so that we can rear-project a variety of faces onto the heads from inside.
See more photos of our first prototypes in this Dreamer album: www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/albums/72157674887503188
Learn more on our project page: fabriceflorin.com/2018/10/25/dreamer
Here's a slightly unusual perspective on a handknitted sock for today's "365".
This is part of the foot and the toe, knitted as a "star toe". This style fits my foot well and doesn't involve the dreaded Kitchener stitch.
(Right, knitters. "Kitchener is easy once you get used to it." Not for everyone. I have a somewhat rare learning disability associated with Non-Verbal Learning Disorder. NVLD is on the autism spectrum and makes certain "spatial relations" things exceedingly difficult for me. Why make a fun thing stressful?)
Day 28/365 shows the heel flap, heel turning, gusset, and a little bit of the foot - taken from the side. Right, a leap from 28 to 62. Since I knit things to sell for craft shows, Society for Creative Anachronism events, and 3 online shops [see my profile!] "knitting for self" is a rather rare event.
I really like the way the color patterning turned out. This is one of the pretty colorways made by Lion Brand for their "Heart and Sole" sock yarn. I don't quite see the point of adding aloe to a yarn, but as long as I like the results ... what the heck!
62/365: 3 March 2010.
[for March's general theme of "The Spectrum We Perceive": here's an example of the spectrum like effect a pretty stripe-ish type variegated sock yarn can produce.]
Polyus is an omnidirectional speaker that allows multiple listeners to perceive different sounds from the same source simultaneously. Using Polyus, sounds can be positioned in specific areas of a room that will be only perceived by the listener in the area that a sound is assigned to. The system consists of three core components: the “Acouspade”, a directional speaker which can focus sound into a narrow beam, a reflector redirecting the sound while spinning at high velocity and a LIDAR (light detection and ranging) sensor tracking the visitor’s position. It allows the creation of nonlinear, spatial compositions through which the audience can move, rather than perceiving it on a timeline. The system is also intended to test our ability to orient ourselves using our hearing.
credit: Florian Voggeneder
We can perceive light not only in the subject of a real space but also virtually as the illusion of space. By placing four layers of reflective transparent glass inside a black box and a mirror with a pinhole in the back, we get to see reflections of light that multiplies infinitely in a closed system with a specific code. The camera obscura never fails to present several possibilities for shaping reality, neither by producing images nor by creating a surreal illusion or effect and reflecting an outer space structure. Despite its use in image production, the camera obscura may also be used as a Space Box.
Credit: Ad Achkar
Inspired by a perceived lack of romance in the Minnesota tundra, Egg & Sperm :: Hide & Seek is an adult hide-and-seek game repeating throughout the night. It eggs on participants to share connections. Four members of the public per rotation wear glowing Sperm helmets and count while a large Egg rolls to a hiding location. When Sperm find the Egg and lays hands on it, the Egg glows more intensely. Once fully illuminated, the Egg is ushered back to the start point and the game begins again.
Playing with contact, this game electrifies connections between spectators, objects, and participants by offering a fun way to contemplate our motivations. Egg & Sperm uses technology to bring people closer together, physically as well as metaphorically. By exaggerating technology’s role at the center of the human quest for love, this work plays on sex and sexuality’s electrifying components. In emphasizing the body’s physicality, the artist hopes to inspire participating individuals into unplanned acts of contact.
Presented by Northern Lights.mn
Photograph Patrick Kelley, courtesy Northern Lights.mn
Collaboration with Kristen Murray on circuitry; with Emily Stover on the Uterine Arch.
St Mary, East Bilney, Norfolk
This fine Victorian church sits remotely from its village in the hills between Dereham and Fakenham. It was built to replace the ramshackle church that Ladbroke drew here in the 1820s. It is hard to perceive any part of it that survives from the medieval structure, but it was all done well and broadly on the plan of the original, including the replacement of a south transept.
Although, as is usual around here, the church is kept locked, there is a nice keyholder notice which virtually implores you to take a look inside.Now, you might wonder if such a building has anything inside to offer the church explorer. Indeed, when we found the church locked we did consider forging on to Tittleshall rather than getting the key, but the rumour of Henry Holiday windows won the day, and I am glad that we bothered.
You step into a bright, clean interior coloured by the flanking late 19th and early 20th century windows. The font and tower arch survive from the earlier building, and I wondered if the lower part of the chancel arch was medieval too. Whatever, the interior is all very harmonious, and very well done. Much of the glass is rather serious in that turn of the century manner, culminating in the magnificent war memorial window depicting St Michael and St Alban. There are two earlier roundels, continental glass of the 17th century each set in a ring of English medieval fragments, both with intriguing inscriptions. One declares itself to be from the Monasterium Leodiense Duodecim Apostolorum, the Monastery of the Twelve Apostles at Luyden.
Another figure remembered in the glass at East Bilney is Thomas Bilney. Bilney was a Catholic Priest, who would have been quite at home with much of the teaching of the modern Catholic Church. However, his doubts about some medieval practices drew the attention of Cardinal Wolsey and Henry VIII's thought police. They cautioned him, but released him to preach again because he was so articulate in his arguments against Lutheranism and the protestant reformers. Eventually, as battle-lines hardened, he was arrested under the authority of the Bishop of Norwich, and burned at the stake as a heretic.
It would have taken a lawyer with a fine eye for the small print to find Bilney guilty of heresy, but what was more to the point was that the Bishop of Norwich had acted without authorisation from above. In turn, he was arrested, and he forfeited his possessions as a punishment for his treatment of Bilney.
This, of course, could not bring Thomas Bilney back. His influence over his pupils at Cambridge University meant that there were articulate and ardent advocates of his cause, among them the increasingly protestant Hugh Latimer. In martyring Bilney, the Church authorities set in motion a chain of events that would lead directly to the horrific conflicts of the middle years of the 16th century, and several centuries of sectarian prejudice and conflict.
A window in the chancel shows Bilney in two scenes, firstly preaching, and then in chains outside Norwich cathedral awaiting his execution. I must say that he looks remarkably cheerful under the circumstances. A panel of glass positioned in a wooden frame beside the chancel arch is a copy of a medieval panel at Dunston depicting St Nicomedes. It is probably intended to portray Bilney in a rather different manner, as a pious saint, which he certainly was.
Monday, September 3rd & Tuesday, September 4th, 2012
I'm in the younger kids' house, just having seen Sandra. The Director of the young children's project and one of the three executive members of the organization, the first time I met her I sensed a distance from her and what I perceived to be coldness. This changed during the second trip and was gone altogether when we reunited again today. We hugged and kissed hello. She was her usual refined and articulate self, softly poking fun at me over how drenched with sweat I was. I laughed and told her how embarrassed this made me and how the locals never seem to sweat in the unforgivable humidity of coastal Nicaragua. She smiled and went to bring me a cup of coffee.
As I was waiting for her and Magno to start our meeting, I noticed a couple of younger boys playing in the room I was sitting in. Silly and all over the place, they rolled around on the floor, laughed, and played with their multiplication tables. The moment was a sweet one so I took out my camera and asked if I could take their photo. This egged them on, as tends to be the case, and they came close to me. One smiled shyly, the other got in my face. "Dejame tomar tu foto!!" he said, his eyes twinkling, asking me to let him to use my camera to take my photo. I laughed and said the camera was really heavy and difficult to use, so better that I take their photo. He smiled and obliged, looking me straight in the eyes. "Como te llamas, amor?", I asked his name. "Fernando!"
I learned more about Fernando a few minutes later from Sandra and much more from his teachers during a meeting today. A boy of 6, he lives with his grandmother- a cruel, older woman with no formal education, who constantly yells at him and says he'll be like "his father" when he grows up. His father, jailed for the next 20 years for committing murder, and his mother, jailed for drug smuggling and prostitution, are not part of Fernando's life and haven't been for a long time. Though I didn't notice it immediately, there is a deep gash on the left side of his forehead, a wound that the teachers at LT don't know the origin of. All they know is that he came to the project house from school two weeks ago, bleeding from the head and with a swollen face and black eye. The teachers, having experienced his violent side (one of them hit on the face recently), say he frequently needs to be separated from other kids. When they took him home two weeks ago to make sure his grandmother was able to care for his wounds, the first thing she did upon seeing him was scream "Why did you do now??"
Sadly, Fernando's story is not uncommon among the kids at 'the project'. Experiencing no love and support at home, and regular indifference as to whether he goes to school or not, Fernando's only real caretakers and support network are his educators at LT. They visit his household regularly to evaluate the existing circumstances, meet with his teachers, and pull him aside to calm him down and occupy him when he becomes angry. When the moment of violence passes, Fernando is the six year old that I met yesterday- laughing and full of energy, his eyes big and shining, excited to make a new friend, play, and pose for the camera.
Lucy
To fully perceive the depths of fentanyl addiction, it’s vital to initial address the question, “What is fentanyl?” Sublimaze may be a narcotic pain pill that's up to fifty times harder than diacetylmorphine and up to one hundred times harder than anodyne. because of the drug’s efficiency and addictive qualities, doctors reserve Sublimaze prescriptions for the foremost severe things. Sublimaze is taken into account a dangerous drug, aboard alternative Schedule II substances like cocaine, a controlled substance, Vicodin, Adderall, and OxyContin. A Sublimaze high mimics that of most alternative painkillers, rendering the user happy and numb — mentally and physically.
Fentanyl Addiction - Symptoms, Overdose, and The Rehab Treatment
Fentanyl was initially introduced to us within the Nineteen Sixties as Associate in Nursing injectable anesthetic branded as an analgesic. The Controlled Substances Act of 1970 labeled Sublimaze a Schedule II drug, because of its addictive qualities. because the Nineteen Seventies progressed, illicit versions of Sublimaze began revelation on the market, increasing the possibilities of Sublimaze addiction. By the first Nineties, the patch was on the market for stratum used. However, the drug didn't become wide legendary for an additional 20 years.
Fentanyl may be a potent opioid pain pill that comes in a very style of completely different formats. The on the market selection may be accountable, in part, for the high rates of addiction-related to this drug. Sublimaze users have many ways to abuse or become hooked which will cause negative aspect effects. ward will treat withdrawal and medical care programs will facilitate in a long recovery. Treatment lasting for a year or longer may facilitate individuals to create resistance to the urge to abuse this powerful drug.
If you are doing not have the tolerance towards the opioid medication, then it will increase the possibilities of the drug even any.
Fentanyl alone may be a dangerous drug, and intermixture it with alternative medications will build it fatal. The one that is a follower sometimes combines illicit medication like diacetylmorphine or stimulants like cocaine.
Signs of fentanyl addiction
Since Sublimaze s a potent drug, you get captivated with it among no time while not you realizing it. Sublimaze works within the brain, creating organic compound changes in your body. this transformation causes you to a follower to that medication terribly quickly.
Once you get keen about the Sublimaze and want additional doses to feel healthy, then it's an indication that you simply have gotten a follower to the drug and want treatment for it.
Demonstrators protested across Brazil on Sunday to denounce corruption and a congressional vote perceived as an effort to intimidate judges and prosecutors leading graft probes.
Dressed mostly in the national colors of yellow and green, thousands marched to demand accountability at a time when Latin America's biggest country is reeling from corruption scandals, political gridlock and a prolonged economic recession.In São Paulo, the country's largest city, about 15,000 people, according to state police, marched down the business thoroughfare of Avenida Paulista, unfurling a long banner reading "Corrupt Congress."
Thousands of protesters fanned out on the streets of Brazilian cities on Sunday to voice indignation with political leaders who are trying to stymie anticorruption investigations.
The protesters focused much of their ire on the politicians at the helm of Brazil’s scandal-ridden Congress, including Rodrigo Maia, the speaker of the lower house, and Renan Calheiros, the powerful head of the Senate, after lawmakers gutted an anticorruption bill last week.(Reuters / New York Times)
São Paulo
Avenida Paulista
Brasil
Dezembro,2016
Inspired by a perceived lack of romance in the Minnesota tundra, Egg & Sperm :: Hide & Seek is an adult hide-and-seek game repeating throughout the night. It eggs on participants to share connections. Four members of the public per rotation wear glowing Sperm helmets and count while a large Egg rolls to a hiding location. When Sperm find the Egg and lays hands on it, the Egg glows more intensely. Once fully illuminated, the Egg is ushered back to the start point and the game begins again.
Playing with contact, this game electrifies connections between spectators, objects, and participants by offering a fun way to contemplate our motivations. Egg & Sperm uses technology to bring people closer together, physically as well as metaphorically. By exaggerating technology’s role at the center of the human quest for love, this work plays on sex and sexuality’s electrifying components. In emphasizing the body’s physicality, the artist hopes to inspire participating individuals into unplanned acts of contact.
Presented by Northern Lights.mn
Photograph courtesy the artists
Collaboration with Kristen Murray on circuitry; with Emily Stover on the Uterine Arch.
Inspired by a perceived lack of romance in the Minnesota tundra, Egg & Sperm :: Hide & Seek is an adult hide-and-seek game repeating throughout the night. It eggs on participants to share connections. Four members of the public per rotation wear glowing Sperm helmets and count while a large Egg rolls to a hiding location. When Sperm find the Egg and lays hands on it, the Egg glows more intensely. Once fully illuminated, the Egg is ushered back to the start point and the game begins again.
Playing with contact, this game electrifies connections between spectators, objects, and participants by offering a fun way to contemplate our motivations. Egg & Sperm uses technology to bring people closer together, physically as well as metaphorically. By exaggerating technology’s role at the center of the human quest for love, this work plays on sex and sexuality’s electrifying components. In emphasizing the body’s physicality, the artist hopes to inspire participating individuals into unplanned acts of contact.
Presented by Northern Lights.mn
Photograph courtesy the artists
Collaboration with Kristen Murray on circuitry; with Emily Stover on the Uterine Arch.
Inspired by a perceived lack of romance in the Minnesota tundra, Egg & Sperm :: Hide & Seek is an adult hide-and-seek game repeating throughout the night. It eggs on participants to share connections. Four members of the public per rotation wear glowing Sperm helmets and count while a large Egg rolls to a hiding location. When Sperm find the Egg and lays hands on it, the Egg glows more intensely. Once fully illuminated, the Egg is ushered back to the start point and the game begins again.
Playing with contact, this game electrifies connections between spectators, objects, and participants by offering a fun way to contemplate our motivations. Egg & Sperm uses technology to bring people closer together, physically as well as metaphorically. By exaggerating technology’s role at the center of the human quest for love, this work plays on sex and sexuality’s electrifying components. In emphasizing the body’s physicality, the artist hopes to inspire participating individuals into unplanned acts of contact.
Presented by Northern Lights.mn
Photograph Patrick Kelley, courtesy Northern Lights.mn
Collaboration with Kristen Murray on circuitry; with Emily Stover on the Uterine Arch.
St Mary, East Bilney, Norfolk
This fine Victorian church sits remotely from its village in the hills between Dereham and Fakenham. It was built to replace the ramshackle church that Ladbroke drew here in the 1820s. It is hard to perceive any part of it that survives from the medieval structure, but it was all done well and broadly on the plan of the original, including the replacement of a south transept.
Although, as is usual around here, the church is kept locked, there is a nice keyholder notice which virtually implores you to take a look inside.Now, you might wonder if such a building has anything inside to offer the church explorer. Indeed, when we found the church locked we did consider forging on to Tittleshall rather than getting the key, but the rumour of Henry Holiday windows won the day, and I am glad that we bothered.
You step into a bright, clean interior coloured by the flanking late 19th and early 20th century windows. The font and tower arch survive from the earlier building, and I wondered if the lower part of the chancel arch was medieval too. Whatever, the interior is all very harmonious, and very well done. Much of the glass is rather serious in that turn of the century manner, culminating in the magnificent war memorial window depicting St Michael and St Alban. There are two earlier roundels, continental glass of the 17th century each set in a ring of English medieval fragments, both with intriguing inscriptions. One declares itself to be from the Monasterium Leodiense Duodecim Apostolorum, the Monastery of the Twelve Apostles at Luyden.
Another figure remembered in the glass at East Bilney is Thomas Bilney. Bilney was a Catholic Priest, who would have been quite at home with much of the teaching of the modern Catholic Church. However, his doubts about some medieval practices drew the attention of Cardinal Wolsey and Henry VIII's thought police. They cautioned him, but released him to preach again because he was so articulate in his arguments against Lutheranism and the protestant reformers. Eventually, as battle-lines hardened, he was arrested under the authority of the Bishop of Norwich, and burned at the stake as a heretic.
It would have taken a lawyer with a fine eye for the small print to find Bilney guilty of heresy, but what was more to the point was that the Bishop of Norwich had acted without authorisation from above. In turn, he was arrested, and he forfeited his possessions as a punishment for his treatment of Bilney.
This, of course, could not bring Thomas Bilney back. His influence over his pupils at Cambridge University meant that there were articulate and ardent advocates of his cause, among them the increasingly protestant Hugh Latimer. In martyring Bilney, the Church authorities set in motion a chain of events that would lead directly to the horrific conflicts of the middle years of the 16th century, and several centuries of sectarian prejudice and conflict.
A window in the chancel shows Bilney in two scenes, firstly preaching, and then in chains outside Norwich cathedral awaiting his execution. I must say that he looks remarkably cheerful under the circumstances. A panel of glass positioned in a wooden frame beside the chancel arch is a copy of a medieval panel at Dunston depicting St Nicomedes. It is probably intended to portray Bilney in a rather different manner, as a pious saint, which he certainly was.
Hong Kong (香港; "Fragrant Harbour"), officially Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, is an autonomous territory on the southern coast of China at the Pearl River Estuary and the South China Sea. Hong Kong is known for its skyline and deep natural harbour. It has an area of 1104 km2 and shares its northern border with the Guangdong Province of Mainland China. With around 7.2 million Hongkongers of various nationalities, Hong Kong is one of the world's most densely populated metropolises.
After the First Opium War (1839–42), Hong Kong became a British colony with the perpetual cession of Hong Kong Island, followed by Kowloon Peninsula in 1860 and a 99-year lease of the New Territories from 1898. Hong Kong remained under British control for about a century until the Second World War, when Japan occupied the colony from December 1941 to August 1945. After the Surrender of Japan, the British resumed control. In the 1980s, negotiations between the United Kingdom and the People's Republic of China resulted in the 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration, which provided for the transfer of sovereignty of Hong Kong on 30 June 1997. The territory became a special administrative region of China with a high degree of autonomy on 1 July 1997 under the principle of one country, two systems. Disputes over the perceived misapplication of this principle have contributed to popular protests, including the 2014 Umbrella Revolution.
In the late 1970s, Hong Kong became a major entrepôt in Asia-Pacific. The territory has developed into a major global trade hub and financial centre. The 44th-largest economy in the world, Hong Kong ranks top 10 in GDP (PPP) per capita, but also has the most severe income inequality among advanced economies. Hong Kong is one of the three most important financial centres alongside New York and London, and the world's number one tourist destination city. The territory has been named the freest market economy. The service economy, characterised by free trade and low taxation, has been regarded as one of the world's most laissez-faire economic policies, and the currency, the Hong Kong dollar, is the 13th most traded currency in the world.
The Hong Kong Basic Law empowers the region to develop relations and make agreements directly with foreign states and regions, as well as international organizations, in a broad range of appropriate fields. It is an independent member of APEC, the IMF, WTO, FIFA and International Olympic Committee among others.
Limited land created a dense infrastructure and the territory became a centre of modern architecture, and one of the world's most vertical cities. Hong Kong has a highly developed public transportation network covering 90 per cent of the population, the highest in the world, and relies on mass transit by road or rail. Air pollution remains a serious problem. Loose emissions standards have resulted in a high level of atmospheric particulates. Nevertheless, Hongkongers enjoy the world's longest or second longest life expectancies.
NAME
It is not known who was responsible for the Romanisation of the name "Hong Kong" but it is generally believed to be an early imprecise phonetic rendering of the pronunciation of the spoken Cantonese or Hakka name 香港, meaning "Fragrant Harbour". Before 1842, the name referred to a small inlet—now Aberdeen Harbour (香港仔, Sidney Lau: heung1gong2 jai2, Jyutping: hoeng1gong2 zai2, or Hiong1gong3 zai3 in a form of Hakka, literally means "Little Hong Kong")—between Aberdeen Island and the south side of Hong Kong Island, which was one of the first points of contact between British sailors and local fishermen. As those early contacts are likely to have been with Hong Kong's early inhabitants, the Tankas (水上人), it is equally probable that the early Romanisation was a faithful execution of their speech, i.e. hong1, not heung1. Detailed and accurate Romanisation systems for Cantonese were available and in use at the time.
The reference to fragrance may refer to the sweet taste of the harbour's fresh water estuarine influx of the Pearl River, or to the incense from factories, lining the coast to the north of Kowloon, which was stored near Aberdeen Harbour for export before the development of the Victoria Harbour.
In 1842, the Treaty of Nanking was signed and the name, Hong Kong, was first recorded on official documents to encompass the entirety of the island.
The name had often been written as the single word Hongkong until the government adopted the current form in 1926. Nevertheless, a number of century-old institutions still retain the single-word form, such as the Hongkong Post, Hongkong Electric and the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.
The full official name, after 1997, is "Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China". This is the official title as mentioned in the Hong Kong Basic Law and the Hong Kong Government's website; however, "Hong Kong Special Administrative Region" and "Hong Kong" are widely accepted.
Hong Kong has carried many nicknames: the most famous among those is the "Pearl of the Orient", which reflected the impressive night-view of the city's light decorations on the skyscrapers along both sides of the Victoria Harbour. The territory is also known as "Asia's World City".
HISTORY
PRE-BRITISH
Archaeological studies support human presence in the Chek Lap Kok area (now Hong Kong International Airport) from 35,000 to 39,000 years ago and on Sai Kung Peninsula from 6,000 years ago.
Wong Tei Tung and Three Fathoms Cove are the earliest sites of human habitation in Hong Kong during the Paleolithic Period. It is believed that the Three Fathom Cove was a river-valley settlement and Wong Tei Tung was a lithic manufacturing site. Excavated Neolithic artefacts suggested cultural differences from the Longshan culture of northern China and settlement by the Che people, prior to the migration of the Baiyue (Viets) to Hong Kong. Eight petroglyphs, which dated to the Shang dynasty in China, were discovered on the surrounding islands.
ANCIENT CHINA
In 214 BC, Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of China, conquered the Baiyue tribes in Jiaozhi (modern Liangguang region and Vietnam) and incorporated the territory into imperial China for the first time. Modern Hong Kong was assigned to the Nanhai commandery (modern Nanhai District), near the commandery's capital city Panyu. In Qin dynasty, the territory was ruled by Panyu County(番禺縣) up till Jin Dynasty.
The area of Hong Kong was consolidated under the kingdom of Nanyue (Southern Viet), founded by general Zhao Tuo in 204 BC after the collapse of the short-lived Qin dynasty. When the kingdom of Nanyue was conquered by the Han Dynasty in 111 BC, Hong Kong was assigned to the Jiaozhi commandery. Archaeological evidence indicates that the population increased and early salt production flourished in this time period. Lei Cheng Uk Han Tomb on the Kowloon Peninsula is believed to have been built during the Han dynasty.
IMPERIAL CHINA
Started from Jin dynasty to early period of Tang dynasty, the territory that now comprises Hong Kong was governed by Bao'an County (寶安縣). In Tang dynasty, the Guangdong region flourished as an international trading center. The Tuen Mun region in what is now Hong Kong's New Territories served as a port, naval base, salt production centre and later, base for the exploitation of pearls. Lantau Island was also a salt production centre, where the salt smugglers riots broke out against the government.
Under the Tang dynasty, the Guangdong (Canton) region flourished as a regional trading centre. In 736 AD, the first Emperor of Tang established a military stronghold in Tuen Mun in western Hong Kong to defend the coastal area of the region. The first village school, Li Ying College, was established around 1075 AD in the modern-day New Territories under the Northern Song dynasty. After their defeat by the Mongols, the Southern Song court briefly moved to modern-day Kowloon City (the Sung Wong Toi site), before its final defeat at the Battle of Yamen.
From the mid-Tang dynasty to early Ming dynasty, the territory that now comprises Hong Kong was governed by Dongguan County (東莞縣/ 東官縣). In Ming dynasty, the area was governed by Xin'an County (新安縣) before it was colonized by the British government. The indigenous inhabitants of what is now Hong Kong are identified with several ethnicities, including Punti, Hakka, Tanka) and Hoklo.
The earliest European visitor on record was Jorge Álvares, a Portuguese explorer who arrived in 1513. Having founded an establishment in Macau by 1557, Portuguese merchants began trading in southern China. However, subsequent military clashes between China and Portugal led to the expulsion of all Portuguese merchants from the rest of China.
In the mid-16th century, the Haijin order (closed-door, isolation policy) was enforced and it strictly forbade all maritime activities in order to prevent contact from foreigners by sea. From 1661 to 1669, Hong Kong was directly affected by the Great Clearance of the Kangxi Emperor, who required the evacuation of coastal areas of Guangdong. About 16,000 people from Hong Kong and Bao'an County were forced to emigrate inland; 1,648 of those who evacuated were said to have returned after the evacuation was rescinded in 1669.
BRITSH CROWN COLONY 1842–1941
In 1839, the refusal of Qing authorities to support opium imports caused the outbreak of the First Opium War between the British Empire and the Qing Empire. Qing's defeat resulted in the occupation of Hong Kong Island by British forces on 20 January 1841. It was initially ceded under the Convention of Chuenpee, as part of a ceasefire agreement between Captain Charles Elliot and Governor Qishan. While a dispute between high-ranking officials of both countries led to the failure of the treaty's ratification, on 29 August 1842, Hong Kong Island was formally ceded in perpetuity to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland under the Treaty of Nanking. The British officially established a Crown colony and founded the City of Victoria in the following year.
The population of Hong Kong Island was 7,450 when the Union Flag raised over Possession Point on 26 January 1841. It mostly consisted of Tanka fishermen and Hakka charcoal burners, whose settlements scattered along several coastal hamlets. In the 1850s, a large number of Chinese immigrants crossed the then-free border to escape from the Taiping Rebellion. Other natural disasters, such as flooding, typhoons and famine in mainland China would play a role in establishing Hong Kong as a place for safe shelter.
Further conflicts over the opium trade between Britain and Qing quickly escalated into the Second Opium War. Following the Anglo-French victory, the Crown Colony was expanded to include Kowloon Peninsula (south of Boundary Street) and Stonecutter's Island, both of which were ceded to the British in perpetuity under the Convention of Beijing in 1860.
In 1898, Britain obtained a 99-year lease from Qing under the Convention for the Extension of Hong Kong Territory, in which Hong Kong obtained a 99-year lease of the Lantau Island, the area north of Boundary Street in Kowloon up to Shenzhen River and over 200 other outlying islands.
Hong Kong soon became a major entrepôt thanks to its free port status, attracting new immigrants to settle from both China and Europe alike. The society, however, remained racially segregated and polarised under British colonial policies. Despite the rise of a British-educated Chinese upper-class by the late-19th century, race laws such as the Peak Reservation Ordinance prevented ethnic Chinese in Hong Kong from acquiring houses in reserved areas, such as the Victoria Peak. At this time, the majority of the Chinese population in Hong Kong had no political representation in the British colonial government. There were, however, a small number of Chinese elites whom the British governors relied on, such as Sir Kai Ho and Robert Hotung, who served as communicators and mediators between the government and local population.
Hong Kong continued to experience modest growth during the first half of the 20th century. The University of Hong Kong was established in 1911 as the territory's oldest higher education institute. While there was an exodus of 60,000 residents for fear of a German attack on the British colony during the First World War, Hong Kong remained peaceful. Its population increased from 530,000 in 1916 to 725,000 in 1925 and reached 1.6 million by 1941.
In 1925, Cecil Clementi became the 17th Governor of Hong Kong. Fluent in Cantonese and without a need for translator, Clementi introduced the first ethnic Chinese, Shouson Chow, into the Executive Council as an unofficial member. Under his tenure, Kai Tak Airport entered operation as RAF Kai Tak and several aviation clubs. In 1937, the Second Sino-Japanese War broke out when the Japanese Empire expanded its territories from northeastern China into the mainland proper. To safeguard Hong Kong as a freeport, Governor Geoffry Northcote declared the Crown Colony as a neutral zone.
JAPANESE OCCUPATION 1941–45
As part of its military campaign in Southeast Asia during Second World War, the Japanese army moved south from Guangzhou of mainland China and attacked Hong Kong on 8 December 1941. The Battle of Hong Kong ended with the British and Canadian defenders surrendering control of Hong Kong to Japan on 25 December 1941 in what was regarded by locals as Black Christmas.
During the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, the Japanese army committed atrocities against civilians and POWs, such as the St. Stephen's College massacre. Local residents also suffered widespread food shortages, limited rationing and hyper-inflation arising from the forced exchange of currency from Hong Kong Dollars to Japanese military banknotes. The initial ratio of 2:1 was gradually devalued to 4:1 and ownership of Hong Kong Dollars was declared illegal and punishable by harsh torture. Due to starvation and forced deportation for slave labour to mainland China, the population of Hong Kong had dwindled from 1.6 million in 1941 to 600,000 in 1945, when Britain resumed control of the colony on 30 August 1945.
ECONOMY
As one of the world's leading international financial centres, Hong Kong has a major capitalist service economy characterised by low taxation and free trade. The currency, Hong Kong dollar, is the eighth most traded currency in the world as of 2010. Hong Kong was once described by Milton Friedman as the world's greatest experiment in laissez-faire capitalism, but has since instituted a regime of regulations including a minimum wage. It maintains a highly developed capitalist economy, ranked the freest in the world by the Index of Economic Freedom every year since 1995. It is an important centre for international finance and trade, with one of the greatest concentrations of corporate headquarters in the Asia-Pacific region, and is known as one of the Four Asian Tigers for its high growth rates and rapid development from the 1960s to the 1990s. Between 1961 and 1997 Hong Kong's gross domestic product grew 180 times while per-capita GDP increased 87 times over.
The Hong Kong Stock Exchange is the seventh largest in the world and has a market capitalisation of US$2.3 trillion as of December 2009. In that year, Hong Kong raised 22 percent of worldwide initial public offering (IPO) capital, making it the largest centre of IPOs in the world and the easiest place to raise capital. The Hong Kong dollar has been pegged to the US dollar since 1983.
The Hong Kong Government has traditionally played a mostly passive role in the economy, with little by way of industrial policy and almost no import or export controls. Market forces and the private sector were allowed to determine practical development. Under the official policy of "positive non-interventionism", Hong Kong is often cited as an example of laissez-faire capitalism. Following the Second World War, Hong Kong industrialised rapidly as a manufacturing centre driven by exports, and then underwent a rapid transition to a service-based economy in the 1980s. Since then, it has grown to become a leading centre for management, financial, IT, business consultation and professional services.
Hong Kong matured to become a financial centre in the 1990s, but was greatly affected by the Asian financial crisis in 1998, and again in 2003 by the SARS outbreak. A revival of external and domestic demand has led to a strong recovery, as cost decreases strengthened the competitiveness of Hong Kong exports and a long deflationary period ended. Government intervention, initiated by the later colonial governments and continued since 1997, has steadily increased, with the introduction of export credit guarantees, a compulsory pension scheme, a minimum wage, anti-discrimination laws, and a state mortgage backer.
The territory has little arable land and few natural resources, so it imports most of its food and raw materials. Imports account for more than 90% of Hong Kong's food supply, including nearly all of the meat and rice available there. Agricultural activity - relatively unimportant to Hong Kong's economy and contributing just 0.1% of its GDP - primarily consists of growing premium food and flower varieties. Hong Kong is the world's eleventh largest trading entity, with the total value of imports and exports exceeding its gross domestic product. It is the world's largest re-export centre. Much of Hong Kong's exports consist of re-exports, which are products made outside of the territory, especially in mainland China, and distributed via Hong Kong. Its physical location has allowed the city to establish a transportation and logistics infrastructure that includes the world's second busiest container port and the world's busiest airport for international cargo. Even before the transfer of sovereignty, Hong Kong had established extensive trade and investment ties with the mainland, which now enable it to serve as a point of entry for investment flowing into the mainland. At the end of 2007, there were 3.46 million people employed full-time, with the unemployment rate averaging 4.1% for the fourth straight year of decline. Hong Kong's economy is dominated by the service sector, which accounts for over 90% of its GDP, while industry constitutes 9%. Inflation was at 2.5% in 2007. Hong Kong's largest export markets are mainland China, the United States, and Japan.
As of 2010 Hong Kong is the eighth most expensive city for expatriates, falling from fifth position in the previous year. Hong Kong is ranked fourth in terms of the highest percentage of millionaire households, behind Switzerland, Qatar, and Singapore with 8.5 percent of all households owning at least one million US dollars. Hong Kong is also ranked second in the world by the most billionaires per capita (one per 132,075 people), behind Monaco. In 2011, Hong Kong was ranked second in the Ease of Doing Business Index, behind Singapore.
Hong Kong is ranked No. 1 in the world in the Crony Capitalism Index by the Economist.
In 2014, Hong Kong was the eleventh most popular destination for international tourists among countries and territories worldwide, with a total of 27.8 million visitors contributing a total of US$38,376 million in international tourism receipts. Hong Kong is also the most popular city for tourists, nearly two times of its nearest competitor Macau.
DEMOGRAPHICS
The territory's population in mid-2015 is 7.30 million, with an average annual growth rate of 0.8% over the previous 5 years. The current population of Hong Kong comprises 91% ethnic Chinese. A major part of Hong Kong's Cantonese-speaking majority originated from the neighbouring Guangdong province, from where many fled during the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Chinese Civil War, and the communist rule in China.
Residents of the Mainland do not automatically receive the Right of Abode, and many may not enter the territory freely. Like other non-natives, they may apply for the Right of Abode after seven years of continuous residency. Some of the rights may also be acquired by marriage (e.g., the right to work), but these do not include the right to vote or stand for office. However, the influx of immigrants from mainland China, approximating 45,000 per year, is a significant contributor to its population growth – a daily quota of 150 Mainland Chinese with family ties in Hong Kong are granted a "one way permit". Life expectancy in Hong Kong is 81.2 years for males and 86.9 years for females as of 2014, making it the highest life expectancy in the world.
About 91% of the people of Hong Kong are of Chinese descent, the majority of whom are Taishanese, Chiu Chow, other Cantonese people, and Hakka. Hong Kong's Han majority originate mainly from the Guangzhou and Taishan regions in Guangdong province. The remaining 6.9% of the population is composed of non-ethnic Chinese. There is a South Asian population of Indians, Pakistanis and Nepalese; some Vietnamese refugees have become permanent residents of Hong Kong. There are also Britons, Americans, Canadians, Japanese, and Koreans working in the city's commercial and financial sector. In 2011, 133,377 foreign domestic helpers from Indonesia and 132,935 from the Philippines were working in Hong Kong.
Hong Kong's de facto official language is Cantonese, a variety of Chinese originating from Guangdong province to the north of Hong Kong. English is also an official language, and according to a 1996 by-census is spoken by 3.1 percent of the population as an everyday language and by 34.9 percent of the population as a second language. Signs displaying both Chinese and English are common throughout the territory. Since the 1997 Handover, an increase in immigrants from communist China and greater interaction with the mainland's economy have brought an increasing number of Mandarin speakers to Hong Kong.
RELIGION
A majority of residents of Hong Kong have no religious affiliation, professing a form of agnosticism or atheism. According to the US Department of State 43 percent of the population practices some form of religion. Some figures put it higher, according to a Gallup poll, 64% of Hong Kong residents do not believe in any religion, and possibly 80% of Hong Kong claim no religion. In Hong Kong teaching evolution won out in curriculum dispute about whether to teach other explanations, and that creationism and intelligent design will form no part of the senior secondary biology curriculum.
Hong Kong enjoys a high degree of religious freedom, guaranteed by the Basic Law. Hong Kong's main religions are Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism; a local religious scholar in contact with major denominations estimates there are approximately 1.5 million Buddhists and Taoists. A Christian community of around 833,000 forms about 11.7% of the total population; Protestants forms a larger number than Roman Catholics at a rate of 4:3, although smaller Christian communities exist, including the Latter-day Saints and Jehovah's Witnesses. The Anglican and Roman Catholic churches each freely appoint their own bishops, unlike in mainland China. There are also Sikh, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu and Bahá'í communities. The practice of Falun Gong is tolerated.
PERSONAL INCOME
Statistically Hong Kong's income gap is the greatest in Asia Pacific. According to a report by the United Nations Human Settlements Programme in 2008, Hong Kong's Gini coefficient, at 0.53, was the highest in Asia and "relatively high by international standards". However, the government has stressed that income disparity does not equate to worsening of the poverty situation, and that the Gini coefficient is not strictly comparable between regions. The government has named economic restructuring, changes in household sizes, and the increase of high-income jobs as factors that have skewed the Gini coefficient.
WIKIPEDIA
St Mary, East Bilney, Norfolk
This fine Victorian church sits remotely from its village in the hills between Dereham and Fakenham. It was built to replace the ramshackle church that Ladbroke drew here in the 1820s. It is hard to perceive any part of it that survives from the medieval structure, but it was all done well and broadly on the plan of the original, including the replacement of a south transept.
Although, as is usual around here, the church is kept locked, there is a nice keyholder notice which virtually implores you to take a look inside.Now, you might wonder if such a building has anything inside to offer the church explorer. Indeed, when we found the church locked we did consider forging on to Tittleshall rather than getting the key, but the rumour of Henry Holiday windows won the day, and I am glad that we bothered.
You step into a bright, clean interior coloured by the flanking late 19th and early 20th century windows. The font and tower arch survive from the earlier building, and I wondered if the lower part of the chancel arch was medieval too. Whatever, the interior is all very harmonious, and very well done. Much of the glass is rather serious in that turn of the century manner, culminating in the magnificent war memorial window depicting St Michael and St Alban. There are two earlier roundels, continental glass of the 17th century each set in a ring of English medieval fragments, both with intriguing inscriptions. One declares itself to be from the Monasterium Leodiense Duodecim Apostolorum, the Monastery of the Twelve Apostles at Luyden.
Another figure remembered in the glass at East Bilney is Thomas Bilney. Bilney was a Catholic Priest, who would have been quite at home with much of the teaching of the modern Catholic Church. However, his doubts about some medieval practices drew the attention of Cardinal Wolsey and Henry VIII's thought police. They cautioned him, but released him to preach again because he was so articulate in his arguments against Lutheranism and the protestant reformers. Eventually, as battle-lines hardened, he was arrested under the authority of the Bishop of Norwich, and burned at the stake as a heretic.
It would have taken a lawyer with a fine eye for the small print to find Bilney guilty of heresy, but what was more to the point was that the Bishop of Norwich had acted without authorisation from above. In turn, he was arrested, and he forfeited his possessions as a punishment for his treatment of Bilney.
This, of course, could not bring Thomas Bilney back. His influence over his pupils at Cambridge University meant that there were articulate and ardent advocates of his cause, among them the increasingly protestant Hugh Latimer. In martyring Bilney, the Church authorities set in motion a chain of events that would lead directly to the horrific conflicts of the middle years of the 16th century, and several centuries of sectarian prejudice and conflict.
A window in the chancel shows Bilney in two scenes, firstly preaching, and then in chains outside Norwich cathedral awaiting his execution. I must say that he looks remarkably cheerful under the circumstances. A panel of glass positioned in a wooden frame beside the chancel arch is a copy of a medieval panel at Dunston depicting St Nicomedes. It is probably intended to portray Bilney in a rather different manner, as a pious saint, which he certainly was.
Inspired by a perceived lack of romance in the Minnesota tundra, Egg & Sperm :: Hide & Seek is an adult hide-and-seek game repeating throughout the night. It eggs on participants to share connections. Four members of the public per rotation wear glowing Sperm helmets and count while a large Egg rolls to a hiding location. When Sperm find the Egg and lays hands on it, the Egg glows more intensely. Once fully illuminated, the Egg is ushered back to the start point and the game begins again.
Playing with contact, this game electrifies connections between spectators, objects, and participants by offering a fun way to contemplate our motivations. Egg & Sperm uses technology to bring people closer together, physically as well as metaphorically. By exaggerating technology’s role at the center of the human quest for love, this work plays on sex and sexuality’s electrifying components. In emphasizing the body’s physicality, the artist hopes to inspire participating individuals into unplanned acts of contact.
Presented by Northern Lights.mn
Photograph courtesy the artists
Collaboration with Kristen Murray on circuitry; with Emily Stover on the Uterine Arch.
[The museum information panel]
Colours are not always perceived in the same way: in the morning light things look different than in the afternoon light. Even the colours of paintings respond to light, assuming different shades during the day. Our eyes and our brain perceive this change, so that our emotions are influences even if we are not apparently conscious of it. In the triclinium of Livia, decorated with plants and birds like a flourishing garden, everything changed tonalities in relation to the change of natural light. In order to see the frescoes in the conditions of the original setting, a sophisticated system of biodynamic light has been installed, reproducing the change of the sunlight 'colour' during the date (after the sunset the light is kept on a mean value). The entire day cycle is reproduced in the space of a few seconds at the beginning of each hour, in order to emphasize the variations of the diurnal light.
Kirana King - India Ki Nayi Dukan
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Check this video to perceive how Kirana King has changed an old and disorderly Kirana Store in Jaipur into a cutting edge, value store. The deals after the fabulous makeover are unimaginable. Additionally, the storekeeper is progressively centered around business development after the problem free stock administration, production network framework and a 24x7 help of Kirana King.
Kirana King is a pioneer grocery marketplace that launched its tremendous project with high hopes 'Parivartan' on August 15, 2018. With an objective to change the sloppy Kirana division of India into a composed and productive one, the organization presented a wonderful arrangement of change for all the neighborhood Kirana storekeepers who needed to be a piece of the change for better future.
If you are a basic supply retailer attempting to secure a position in this aggressive market, hold hands with Kirana King and change your store into 'India Ki Nayi Dukan'.
To know more about Kirana King and how we can help you, contact us at: info@kiranaking.com l kiranaking.com
Kirana King - India Ki Nayi Dukan
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Check this video to perceive how Kirana King has changed an old and disorderly Kirana Store in Jaipur into a cutting edge, value store. The deals after the fabulous makeover are unimaginable. Additionally, the storekeeper is progressively centered around business development after the problem free stock administration, production network framework and a 24x7 help of Kirana King.
Kirana King is a pioneer grocery marketplace that launched its tremendous project with high hopes 'Parivartan' on August 15, 2018. With an objective to change the sloppy Kirana division of India into a composed and productive one, the organization presented a wonderful arrangement of change for all the neighborhood Kirana storekeepers who needed to be a piece of the change for better future.
If you are a basic supply retailer attempting to secure a position in this aggressive market, hold hands with Kirana King and change your store into 'India Ki Nayi Dukan'.
To know more about Kirana King and how we can help you, contact us at: info@kiranaking.com l kiranaking.com
Over recent years, concerns about the use of modern medicines have increased. Many perceive modern medicines as poisons while ignoring the benefits, with the view that their unnatural origins are dangerous. On the other hand, others consider complementary and alternative medicines much safer due to their natural origins. In reality, it’s the pharmacological properties of the drug which determine their physiological effect. Expectations of therapeutic outcome are known to influence the perceived efficacy of medicines (i.e. the placebo effect); however we do not know whether perceptions about drug manufacturing also influence this effect. To investigate this idea I invited participants to test two topical anaesthetics: Xyloptan – described as a medicine which was developed in the lab and works by inhibiting the nervous system, and Cassibalm – described as a natural remedy made from the extracts of a tropical plant and works by triggering endorphins in the body. Both of these medicines were in fact placebos and contained the same pharmacologically inert cream. Thus, any difference in therapeutic effect or side effect occurrence would be due to the information I provided about each medicine. Expectations and beliefs about each medicine were measured before assessing their therapeutic effect using experimentally induced pain (cold pressor task) as a model.
We generally perceive ice to be ice, regardless of its shape and size. Ice may be just frozen water to keep drinks cool, but some people take their ice very seriously.
Take a look at a mother who has a teething baby who lives on soft sonic ice. Imagine a bartender who understands how ice melting affects flavor and has been trained to calculate it.
Gaiety Theatre, Douglas, IoM. The perceived glamour of show business is often confined to the front of house areas - part of the back stage working area.
Originally opened as the Marina, designed by W J Rennison, in 1893 - it went bankrupt within 6 months, was sold and renamed the Pavilion. This was a large flat floored hall with a single small balcony, used for concerts, music halls, exhibitions, bazaars and, in one summer, roller skating. It was one of a number of such ventures, all competing with each other, and at the very end of the C19th they went into voluntary liquidation and emerged as the Palace and Derby Castle Company who went on to control much of the towns' entertainment. They immediately closed the Pavilion, and commissioned Frank Matcham to build a theatre in its place. Matcham retained much of the Pavilion and, in a remarkably short space of time, inserted the stage and auditorium into the existing building. The Gaiety Theatre and Opera House was opened on 16 July 1900 and was a huge success. However, particularly after WW2, tastes, and the Island's tourism changed, and the theatre fell into a steep decline, coming within a day of demolition in 1970. Thankfully it was saved, bought by the Isle of Man Government, and began a very slow, painstaking restoration, completed for the theatre's centenary.
City of Douglas, Isle of Man, Irish Sea, British Crown Dependency - Gaiety Theatre, Harris Promenade
July 2023
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This project ia part of the Ars Electronica Garden Bucharest / UNATC.
Distant Art. Color as perceived through the eyes, transcends mere information in the visible range of electromagnetism and serves as an agent for communication and entertainment.
“Engender” invites you to become part of the installation by entering its field. It offers the audience a multi-sensory experience triggered by human touch, followed by a strong line of artwork and vivid colours. The painting is capable of creating sounds encoded graphically with Conductive Ink.
The artwork aspires to elicit musical response from you, that will be recorded and pass through different stages to create new compositions.
For more informations please visit:
ars.electronica.art/keplersgardens/en/cinetic-residencies...
Credits: Andrei Gindac
Inspired by a perceived lack of romance in the Minnesota tundra, Egg & Sperm :: Hide & Seek is an adult hide-and-seek game repeating throughout the night. It eggs on participants to share connections. Four members of the public per rotation wear glowing Sperm helmets and count while a large Egg rolls to a hiding location. When Sperm find the Egg and lays hands on it, the Egg glows more intensely. Once fully illuminated, the Egg is ushered back to the start point and the game begins again.
Playing with contact, this game electrifies connections between spectators, objects, and participants by offering a fun way to contemplate our motivations. Egg & Sperm uses technology to bring people closer together, physically as well as metaphorically. By exaggerating technology’s role at the center of the human quest for love, this work plays on sex and sexuality’s electrifying components. In emphasizing the body’s physicality, the artist hopes to inspire participating individuals into unplanned acts of contact.
Presented by Northern Lights.mn
Photograph Patrick Kelley, courtesy Northern Lights.mn
Collaboration with Kristen Murray on circuitry; with Emily Stover on the Uterine Arch.
Inspired by a perceived lack of romance in the Minnesota tundra, Egg & Sperm :: Hide & Seek is an adult hide-and-seek game repeating throughout the night. It eggs on participants to share connections. Four members of the public per rotation wear glowing Sperm helmets and count while a large Egg rolls to a hiding location. When Sperm find the Egg and lays hands on it, the Egg glows more intensely. Once fully illuminated, the Egg is ushered back to the start point and the game begins again.
Playing with contact, this game electrifies connections between spectators, objects, and participants by offering a fun way to contemplate our motivations. Egg & Sperm uses technology to bring people closer together, physically as well as metaphorically. By exaggerating technology’s role at the center of the human quest for love, this work plays on sex and sexuality’s electrifying components. In emphasizing the body’s physicality, the artist hopes to inspire participating individuals into unplanned acts of contact.
Presented by Northern Lights.mn
Photograph courtesy the artists
Collaboration with Kristen Murray on circuitry; with Emily Stover on the Uterine Arch.
St Mary, East Bilney, Norfolk
This fine Victorian church sits remotely from its village in the hills between Dereham and Fakenham. It was built to replace the ramshackle church that Ladbroke drew here in the 1820s. It is hard to perceive any part of it that survives from the medieval structure, but it was all done well and broadly on the plan of the original, including the replacement of a south transept.
Although, as is usual around here, the church is kept locked, there is a nice keyholder notice which virtually implores you to take a look inside.Now, you might wonder if such a building has anything inside to offer the church explorer. Indeed, when we found the church locked we did consider forging on to Tittleshall rather than getting the key, but the rumour of Henry Holiday windows won the day, and I am glad that we bothered.
You step into a bright, clean interior coloured by the flanking late 19th and early 20th century windows. The font and tower arch survive from the earlier building, and I wondered if the lower part of the chancel arch was medieval too. Whatever, the interior is all very harmonious, and very well done. Much of the glass is rather serious in that turn of the century manner, culminating in the magnificent war memorial window depicting St Michael and St Alban. There are two earlier roundels, continental glass of the 17th century each set in a ring of English medieval fragments, both with intriguing inscriptions. One declares itself to be from the Monasterium Leodiense Duodecim Apostolorum, the Monastery of the Twelve Apostles at Luyden.
Another figure remembered in the glass at East Bilney is Thomas Bilney. Bilney was a Catholic Priest, who would have been quite at home with much of the teaching of the modern Catholic Church. However, his doubts about some medieval practices drew the attention of Cardinal Wolsey and Henry VIII's thought police. They cautioned him, but released him to preach again because he was so articulate in his arguments against Lutheranism and the protestant reformers. Eventually, as battle-lines hardened, he was arrested under the authority of the Bishop of Norwich, and burned at the stake as a heretic.
It would have taken a lawyer with a fine eye for the small print to find Bilney guilty of heresy, but what was more to the point was that the Bishop of Norwich had acted without authorisation from above. In turn, he was arrested, and he forfeited his possessions as a punishment for his treatment of Bilney.
This, of course, could not bring Thomas Bilney back. His influence over his pupils at Cambridge University meant that there were articulate and ardent advocates of his cause, among them the increasingly protestant Hugh Latimer. In martyring Bilney, the Church authorities set in motion a chain of events that would lead directly to the horrific conflicts of the middle years of the 16th century, and several centuries of sectarian prejudice and conflict.
A window in the chancel shows Bilney in two scenes, firstly preaching, and then in chains outside Norwich cathedral awaiting his execution. I must say that he looks remarkably cheerful under the circumstances. A panel of glass positioned in a wooden frame beside the chancel arch is a copy of a medieval panel at Dunston depicting St Nicomedes. It is probably intended to portray Bilney in a rather different manner, as a pious saint, which he certainly was.
This was a project I did for school, wich turned out pretty good if you'd ask me ;) Not sure i managed to copy to whole Bladerunner theme though. I would love feedback, as always. And please take a look at the whole set. If you haven't seen it yet (The movie), then your'e in for a great experience. I've seen it 5 times in 2 weeks and Ridley Scott amazed me every time. And again, let me know what you think please. Thanks
“Perceiving the world as well designed and thus the product of a designer, and even seeing divine providence in the daily affairs of life, may be the product of a brain adapted to finding patterns in nature.”
~ Michael Shermer
Camera: Pentax Spotmatic, f1.8/55mm SMC Takumar lens. Queen And Augusta. Agfapan 400 developed in Rodinal @ 1:50, printed on Agfa semi-matte paper.
Today's posting is coming quite late due to the fact that I started a new job today. For the next few months, I will be an Accommodations Officer with the Government of Ontario. Still not my field, but not a bad job, and most importantly, it allows me to pay the bills while i look for work in my field.
Inspired by a perceived lack of romance in the Minnesota tundra, Egg & Sperm :: Hide & Seek is an adult hide-and-seek game repeating throughout the night. It eggs on participants to share connections. Four members of the public per rotation wear glowing Sperm helmets and count while a large Egg rolls to a hiding location. When Sperm find the Egg and lays hands on it, the Egg glows more intensely. Once fully illuminated, the Egg is ushered back to the start point and the game begins again.
Playing with contact, this game electrifies connections between spectators, objects, and participants by offering a fun way to contemplate our motivations. Egg & Sperm uses technology to bring people closer together, physically as well as metaphorically. By exaggerating technology’s role at the center of the human quest for love, this work plays on sex and sexuality’s electrifying components. In emphasizing the body’s physicality, the artist hopes to inspire participating individuals into unplanned acts of contact.
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Photograph Patrick Kelley, courtesy Northern Lights.mn
Collaboration with Kristen Murray on circuitry; with Emily Stover on the Uterine Arch.
In the mid-1960s BMW perceived a market for a smaller, more affordable, two-door version of its four-door New Class executive sedan. Corporate design director Wilhelm Hofmeister assigned the project to staffers Georg Bertram and Manfred Rennen, who produced an attractive and sporty car 5 cm (2 in) shorter in wheelbase and some 25 cm (10 in) shorter in length, mainly by shortening the rear deck. The resulting 1966 production 1600-2 was less well-appointed than the New Class, but lighter, faster, and better handling.
The larger displacement 2002 directly derived from it in 1968 would go on to establish a new reputation for BMW as a maker of high-quality affordable performance vehicles.
Helmut Werner Bönsch, BMW's director of product planning, and Alex von Falkenhausen, designer of the company’s M10 engine, each independently had a two-litre version of the M10 installed in a 1600-2 for their personal use. When they realized they had both made the same modification to their own cars, they prepared a joint proposal to BMW's board to manufacture a two-litre version of the 1600-2.
As per the larger coupe and 4-door sedan models, the 2.0 engine was initially sold in two states of tune: the base single-carburetor 2002 producing 100 PS (74 kW; 99 hp) and the dual-carburetor high compression 2002 ti producing 120 PS (88 kW; 118 hp). The 2002 ti was replaced in 1971 by the 2002 tii, which used the fuel-injected 130 PS (96 kW; 128 hp) engine from the 2000 tii, delivering a top speed of 185 km/h (115 mph).
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Demonstrators protested across Brazil on Sunday to denounce corruption and a congressional vote perceived as an effort to intimidate judges and prosecutors leading graft probes.
Dressed mostly in the national colors of yellow and green, thousands marched to demand accountability at a time when Latin America's biggest country is reeling from corruption scandals, political gridlock and a prolonged economic recession.In São Paulo, the country's largest city, about 15,000 people, according to state police, marched down the business thoroughfare of Avenida Paulista, unfurling a long banner reading "Corrupt Congress."
Thousands of protesters fanned out on the streets of Brazilian cities on Sunday to voice indignation with political leaders who are trying to stymie anticorruption investigations.
The protesters focused much of their ire on the politicians at the helm of Brazil’s scandal-ridden Congress, including Rodrigo Maia, the speaker of the lower house, and Renan Calheiros, the powerful head of the Senate, after lawmakers gutted an anticorruption bill last week.(Reuters / New York Times)
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St Mary, East Bilney, Norfolk
This fine Victorian church sits remotely from its village in the hills between Dereham and Fakenham. It was built to replace the ramshackle church that Ladbroke drew here in the 1820s. It is hard to perceive any part of it that survives from the medieval structure, but it was all done well and broadly on the plan of the original, including the replacement of a south transept.
Although, as is usual around here, the church is kept locked, there is a nice keyholder notice which virtually implores you to take a look inside.Now, you might wonder if such a building has anything inside to offer the church explorer. Indeed, when we found the church locked we did consider forging on to Tittleshall rather than getting the key, but the rumour of Henry Holiday windows won the day, and I am glad that we bothered.
You step into a bright, clean interior coloured by the flanking late 19th and early 20th century windows. The font and tower arch survive from the earlier building, and I wondered if the lower part of the chancel arch was medieval too. Whatever, the interior is all very harmonious, and very well done. Much of the glass is rather serious in that turn of the century manner, culminating in the magnificent war memorial window depicting St Michael and St Alban. There are two earlier roundels, continental glass of the 17th century each set in a ring of English medieval fragments, both with intriguing inscriptions. One declares itself to be from the Monasterium Leodiense Duodecim Apostolorum, the Monastery of the Twelve Apostles at Luyden.
Another figure remembered in the glass at East Bilney is Thomas Bilney. Bilney was a Catholic Priest, who would have been quite at home with much of the teaching of the modern Catholic Church. However, his doubts about some medieval practices drew the attention of Cardinal Wolsey and Henry VIII's thought police. They cautioned him, but released him to preach again because he was so articulate in his arguments against Lutheranism and the protestant reformers. Eventually, as battle-lines hardened, he was arrested under the authority of the Bishop of Norwich, and burned at the stake as a heretic.
It would have taken a lawyer with a fine eye for the small print to find Bilney guilty of heresy, but what was more to the point was that the Bishop of Norwich had acted without authorisation from above. In turn, he was arrested, and he forfeited his possessions as a punishment for his treatment of Bilney.
This, of course, could not bring Thomas Bilney back. His influence over his pupils at Cambridge University meant that there were articulate and ardent advocates of his cause, among them the increasingly protestant Hugh Latimer. In martyring Bilney, the Church authorities set in motion a chain of events that would lead directly to the horrific conflicts of the middle years of the 16th century, and several centuries of sectarian prejudice and conflict.
A window in the chancel shows Bilney in two scenes, firstly preaching, and then in chains outside Norwich cathedral awaiting his execution. I must say that he looks remarkably cheerful under the circumstances. A panel of glass positioned in a wooden frame beside the chancel arch is a copy of a medieval panel at Dunston depicting St Nicomedes. It is probably intended to portray Bilney in a rather different manner, as a pious saint, which he certainly was.
1973 Eclipse Cruise, The Day.
As I mentioned before, the biggest perceived problem was the rolling of the ship. This man (I believe he was a physics teacher) had built a cruciform structure out of Dexion (remember Dexion?). The mass of the structure, consisting mainly of four large lead weights, is concentrated at the periphery where it maximizes the moment of inertia (I told you he was a physics teacher), thereby maximizing the stability of the entire structure. The centre of the cross rests on gimbals which he managed to acquire. Back home he set the entire contraction tuning one evening in the lab and returned the following morning to find it still spinning.
He got some nice pictures, too, although the whole structure was overkill for the actual conditions.